Robert Crumb = Asperger's?

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Hrm. I had no idea about this band. The irritatingly short little blip samples on 'Amazon' are great.

That R. Crumb has rare and pleasing taste in music is about all I remember about that movie.

Now I am once again grumbling bitterly that DRAM and NAXOS don't have that kind of stuff. And that their interfaces suck so bad you can't properly search them anyway. O vile fate.

Heroes of Blues Jazz and Country is another book with a CD that is amazing....I would put that on repeat play for hours when we were working on the new SHFL location. It was lent to us by my friend who gave me the Cheap Suit CD....i can't find it though...I think somebody mighta hid it...

Thank you.

I have a lot of recordings from Robert's collection and much of it is now on my MP3 Player and online on"Zune".
Although I do data management at work, I'm not familiar with this music software...but if I ever figure it out, I believe it will be possible to share with anyone that wants to provide an email address and create a zune login. I'm well aware that most people do not love this old music as much as I do but it's nice to share just in case this one or that one should develop a passion against all odds.
In addition to all sorts of old American music, "The Collection" includes a lot of old recordings from all over the world although Asia is not well represented.
Snippets are really annoying...can't use'em!

oooh...i am pretty much unfamiliar with most music software...but I do love old-Americana etc.....I will PM you my e-mail address and attempt to figure it out.

I am a ukulele player..and nuts for old-obscure music.

This is promising! Are you a young person..I'm not...I've been here 56 interesting years. It's particularly pleasing when a young person appreciates the old stuff...the sensibility is almost exactly opposite of the modern world we live in. I'm not sure what "PM" means but I'll try to figure it out and reciprocate. On Sunday, I'll see if I can figure out the zune thing atr work. I seem to have a different view from my work computer which I suspect means I didn't correctly transfer all of the files to my external hard drive....the necessary evil of technology is wearisome at times.

Wow. This is unreal

Wish I could help, but I don't have a Zune (or an iPod, for that matter).

To add to the unrealness, after I posted I started flipping channels on the tube and find the Crumb documentary playing on Ovation TV.

So not only is this thread talking about Mr. Crumb but Mr. Crumb himself serendipitously jumps on , and as if that weren't enough, soon after posting my reaction to this, I stumble onto the tail-end of the Crumb documentary on tv. I mean the chances of all that... Synchronicity is spooky.

An IT friend at work sort of talked me into the MP3 player and baby-sat me through the set up. I only listen to it on the flights to and from France and the flights for the one business trip I take a year. I'm still amazed at how much less awful it is to spend up to 20 hours airporting & flying now that I can comfort myself with music I love. I didn't really expect the "completely different frame of mind" thing that happens while listening to music to work on a plane but it did, just like magic!
An old musician friend of mine (we went to school together k-12) recently sent me this endearing and amusing message:
Well, well, well.......,
"So we travel to Paris not only for the culture but for
romance............?? Now, from yer' description.....sitting in a
chair, rocking, oblivious to the world around you.............makes you
a drummer!!"
Thank goodness for the eyes of our friendly beholders.

I have only marginally heard bits and pieces from them here and there. It has been a while since i have explored any new bands(as in bands I am unfamiliar with--(outside of the perpetual bombardment of the 100+bands that play at my place every month)....maybe they will be next.

One of my favorite internet radio stations is http://www.weirdsville.com I mainly only listen to the "Swank" channel...They have some neet oldies....I like the various Reefer songs.

It would be awesome if the songs could be accessible in a format like the one on Weirdsville. It is easy to find and easy to access...at least I think so...

Okay, so I have no idea what all this technology is....I would love nothing better than to know about it, have access to it and the resources to put it "out there" for anyone with an interest. Since some of Robert's old musician friends have started moving their collections to digital, he's less resistent to the idea. But I have heard that there are some subtle sound waves available on analog that do not "cross over" to digital. This is of no concern to me personally since my hearing does not encompass that level of subtlety anyway. I just want to make sure that you are all aware that these are "homemade" recordings from 78s. Many people cannot listen to them because the "scratchy" sound [more likely to be intrusive if it's a rare recording, some old blues and at least one rare Dennis Magee (cajun fiddler) disc in Robert's collection] so completely overwhelms their experience of the music. Connoisseurs’ insist that one must be very careful about (technically) decreasing the scratchy effect in order to maintain the integrity of the recording. A friend of Robert's is a sound engineer and I'll print out these technical suggestions and send them to France so Robert can discuss them with the sound engineer who will be visiting in France later this summer. Perhaps he'd be willing to take this project on, who knows? Meanwhile I'll start researching...